Teagasc is confirming that winter cereals are well established this season thanks to earlier sowing and good growth up to ...

It’s all go in the tillage fields this week as fine weather has taken over the weather charts to give farmers a great chance ...

Several reduced tillage practices include vertical-till, strip-till, zone-till, and no-till. Reducing tillage means exactly what you think — making fewer passes through the field and/or ...

On this week’s tillage podcast, we get down to practical agronomy on fertiliser, herbicides and fungicides and we hear from ...

Tillage is often seen as the organic alternative to chemical weed control. Tillage can be very effective at reducing weed populations, but can it be embraced as the solution to the weed problem? What ...

Since the first farmers tilled the soil more than 10,000 years ago, the plow has been the essential tool of human survival.

The evolution of vertical tillage tools has entered a new phase with the introduction of “hybrid” tillage tools. “Hybrid tillage is almost the Holy Grail of tillage,” says Curt Davis ...

The recent spring tillage meeting, hosted by Teagasc in Co. Donegal, ticked many important boxes for growers . There was a ...

John Deere has introduced a next-generation perception system, expanding autonomous capabilities for select 9R, 9RX, 8R, and ...

More information: Cong Wang et al, No-tillage practice enhances soil total carbon content in a sandy Cyperus esculentus L. field, Ecological Processes (2025). DOI: 10.1186/s13717-024-00573-x ...